In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fletchamstead like this:
FLETCHAMSTEAD, a village in Stoneleigh parish, Warwick; adjacent to the Birmingham railway, 2 miles SW of Coventry. Over Fletchamstead here was given, as a manor, by Henry VIII., to John Beaumont, Esq.; passed to the Humberstons and the Leighs; and had a fine Gothic mansion erected on it by Sir Thomas Leigh, -which gave shelter for a short time to Charles I., and the remains of which were afterwards converted into a farm-house. ...
Lower Fletchamstead belonged, in the time of Henry VII., to John Smith, one of the Commissioners for levying men against the threatened invasion by France; and was partly converted by his son into a park.
Fletchamstead through time
Fletchamstead is now part of Coventry district. Click here for graphs and data of how Coventry has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fletchamstead itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fletchamstead, in Coventry and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21416
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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